Home care workers demand minimum wage, overtime protections
By Elise Viebeck, The Hill
Home care workers are demanding final rules from the Obama administration that would give them federal minimum wage and overtime protections.
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Congressman Mike Turner Announces Next Step in Delphi Pension Investigation
By Mike Turner, texasgopvote.com
The House Oversight & Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations will hold a field hearing in Dayton on Monday June 10th. The hearing, entitled “The Delphi Pension Bailout: Unequal Treatment of Retirees,” will take place at Sinclair Community College.
Treasury and UAW Hand in Hand on GM Offering
By Mark Modica, National Legal and Policy Center
It looks like the Obama Administration and the UAW are again working hand in hand as the two entities are coordinating on an offering of a total of 50 million General Motors shares.
The Price of NLRB Defiance
The Wall Street Journal
‘The National Labor Relations Board has problems with authority.” That droll understatement begins a petition filed Thursday with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, highlighting the havoc the Obama labor board’s defiance is causing in the real world.
Both Sides Hoping Supreme Court Agrees to Hear NLRB Recess Appointment Case
By Donald Scarinci, NJ.com
President Barack Obama and the business groups challenging his recess appointments to the National Labor Review Board both agree on one thing—it is time for the U.S. Supreme Court to step in.
Obama’s NLRB Nominees Get Support From The Usual Suspects…And A Few Unlikely Ones Too
By Labor Union Report, RedState.com
The Obama Administration, Senate Democrats and their union handlers must be concerned about the Supreme Court’s hearing the issue of Obama’s “recess” appointments at the National Labor Relations Board.
A Short-Term Solution to NLRB Impasse: A 4-Member Board
By Peter J. Hurtgen, The National Law Journal
The world of labor management relations is currently embroiled in a major upheaval, which has spread beyond the usual union/management battleground.
Card check needs to remain on the back burner
The Gazette
Big Labor gave Barack Obama a big boost. When Obama won re-election, labor chief Richard Trumka made a big boast: Obama will get done what he failed to do in the first term, which is to get card check to become the law of the land.
GOP senators file brief in NLRB Supreme Court appeal
By Sean Higgins, The Washington Examiner
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced that all 44 of his fellow Senate Republicans joined him in signing an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to invalidate President Obama’s recess appointments.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ABUSE OF POWER GOES BEYOND THE IRS
By John Hayward, Human Events
As we try to fathom how a few low-level rogue employees launched a national campaign to discriminate against groups that oppose Barack Obama’s policies, without any resistance from a long chain of experienced, highly compensated supervisors… and wonder where this rowdy band of cubicle gremlins ever got the idea to do such a thing… let’s remember that Obama’s political opponents just happened to fall under the scrutiny of agencies beyond the IRS Tax Exempt Organizations unit.